· Public charity
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate these institutions in creating a culture of generosity and sound financial practices.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of METHODIST FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $680,502 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,478,729 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $798,227 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $533k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARKWAY HILLS UMC MADISON | $58,059 |
| ST MARK'S UMC BRANDON | $40,358 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $40,275 |
| MAIN STREET UMC HATTIESBURG | $37,513 |
| AMORY FIRST UMC | $34,098 |
| ST JOHN'S UMC GREENWOOD | $31,891 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $27,250 |
| BRAXTON UMC | $26,237 |
| BIG CREEK UMC | $25,178 |
| PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN | $19,526 |
| FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY | $19,521 |
| NATCHEZ CHILDREN'S HOMES | $19,521 |
| MSU WESLEY FOUNDATION | $19,016 |
| ST MATTHEW'S UMC MADISON | $17,745 |
| MILLSAPS COLLEGE | $17,066 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UMUNITED METHODIST MINISTRY WITH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC3× · 2021–2024 · $101k · revenue +89%
- NCNATCHEZ CHILDREN'S SERVICES6× · 2019–2024 · $96k · revenue +16%
- FCFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY6× · 2019–2024 · $96k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- SPSOUTHERN PINES ANIMAL SHELTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $157k · revenue +30%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $29k
- PHPARKWAY HILLS UMC MADISONone grant, 2023 · $27k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 81 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SOUTHERN PINES ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST MINISTRY WITH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NATCHEZ CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG CREEK METHODIST CEMETARY ASSN ↗
- Who funds THE HOME PLACE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI METHODIST SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds OLD LADIES HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESLEY FOUNDATION AT MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
- Who funds William Carey University ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Pinebelt Foundation · Warren A Hood Jr Family Foundation · Wesley a Caldwell Foundation Inc · Rosewood Foundation · Woodward Hines Education Foundation · Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation · Phil Hardin Foundation · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.